Here’s Jared Dines’ Colossal New 18-String Guitar!

Following the debacle that was last year’s 17-string guitar — which turned out to be a mass-produced Chinese model that an American luthier was passing off as his own — YouTuber Jared Dines has rung in 2018 with an 18-string instrument, per his yearly tradition.

That beastly but admittedly pretty cool looking thing you see above was manufactured by Ormsby Guitars, a reputable luthier that produced the instrument custom for Dines. The one of a kind instrument was unveiled this past Saturday at The NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA and has the following features: